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Jan 1, 2016

WHO Report on Acupuncture

The World Health Organization (WHO) has deemed acupuncture an effective therapy for a number of conditions, and has published a report in which they reviewed acupuncture-related study findings for several dozen conditions.

(Note: This is not an exhaustive list of conditions that acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine maybe helpful for; if you have questions about whether or not acupuncture may benefit you, please contact the Sunflower Wellness Center for a consultation.)

The following is a list of conditions effectively treated by acupuncture, according to the World Health Organization:

1. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which acupuncture has been proven – through controlled trials – to be an effective treatment:

2. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which the therapeutic effect of acupuncture has been demonstrated:

Abdominal pain (in acute gastroenteritis or due to gastrointestinal spasm)

Acne vulgaris

Alcohol dependence and detoxification

Bell’s palsy

Bronchial asthma

Cancer pain

Cardiac neurosis

Cholecystitis, chronic, with acute exacerbation

Cholelithiasis

Competition stress syndrome

Craniocerebral injury, closed

Diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent

Earache

Epidemic haemorrhagic fever

Epistaxis, simple (without generalized or local disease)

Eye pain due to subconjunctival injection

Female infertility

Facial spasm

Female urethral syndrome

Fibromyalgia and fasciitis

Gastrokinetic disturbance

Gouty arthritis

Hepatitis B virus carrier status

Herpes zoster (human (alpha) herpesvirus 3)

Hyperlipaemia

Hypo-ovarianism

Insomnia

Labour pain

Lactation, deficiency

Male sexual dysfunction, non-organic

Ménière disease

Neuralgia, post-herpetic

Neurodermatitis

Obesity

Opium, cocaine and heroin dependence

Osteoarthritis

Pain due to endoscopic examination

Pain in thromboangiitis obliterans

Polycystic ovary syndrome (Stein-Leventhal syndrome)

Postextubation in children

Postoperative convalescence

Premenstrual syndrome

Prostatitis, chronic

Pruritus

Radicular and pseudoradicular pain syndrome

Raynaud syndrome, primary

Recurrent lower urinary-tract infection

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy

Retention of urine, traumatic

Schizophrenia

Sialism, drug-induced

Sjögren syndrome

Sore throat (including tonsillitis)

Spine pain, acute

Stiff neck

Temporomandibular joint dysfunction

Tietze syndrome

Tobacco dependence

Tourette syndrome

Ulcerative colitis, chronic

Urolithiasis

Vascular dementia

Whooping cough (pertussis)

3. Diseases, symptoms or conditions for which there are individual controlled trials reporting some therapeutic julietta online casino effects with acupuncture, and for which acupuncture is worth trying in part because treatment by conventional and other therapies is difficult:

Chloasma

Choroidopathy, central serous

Colour blindness

Deafness

Hypophrenia

Irritable colon syndrome

Neuropathic bladder in spinal cord injury

Pulmonary heart disease, chronic

Small airway obstruction

If you have questions or you’d like to discuss your condition and whether acupuncture is likely to help you or a loved one, contact the Sunflower Wellness Center for a consultation today.